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Myles Ma / New Jersey Online:
Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say — File photo: Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash (right) and his wife Alicia sit on a coach inside their inside their home in 2009. Nash, a senior research mathematician at Princeton University …
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Erica Goode / New York Times:
John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86 — John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel Prize in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose decades-long descent into severe mental illness …
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Washington Post, The Atlantic and Outside the Beltway
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Driving Uber Mad — WASHINGTON — ON a reporting expedition to Los Angeles recently, I realized I could stop renting cars. — I would never again have to brave the L.A. freeway behind the wheel. I would never have to obsess, like the characters in the “Saturday Night Live” skit …
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
New York's PIX11:
Lindenhurst family receives racially charged letter in mailbox, told to leave town … LINDENHURST, N.Y. (PIX11)- Suffolk County police are investigating a possible hate crime targeting an African-American family in Lindenhurst. — Ronica Copes, a resident of the suburban neighborhood …
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Raw Story
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Tolerant Jeweler Who Harbored an Impure Opinion of Same-Sex Marriage — I — n the American Conservative yesterday, Rod Dreher related the following story: … One could be forgiven for wondering how we are all supposed to keep up. Last month, as Indiana's rather tame religious-freedom legislation …
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Ed Driscoll, Instapundit and The Gateway Pundit
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
No pay, no play! Poor kids banned from school carnival — PS 120 in Queens held its fun-day carnival for students whose families could shell out $10 - but banished those of modest means to the auditorium. — No party for the poor. — PS 120 in Flushing held a carnival for its students on Thursday …
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Can Feingold come back from defeat? — By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel — For almost two decades, Russ Feingold had a winning image in Wisconsin politics — the liberal maverick. He galvanized Democrats, won independents and made small but critical inroads among Republicans.
Justin S. Vaughn / New York Times:
The Making of a Great Ex-President — Though deeply engaged in his presidency — battling for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and against ISIS — Barack Obama is also casting an eye beyond Jan. 20, 2017, when his post-presidency begins. We've learned that his presidential library will be in Chicago …
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CNN:
Iraq veteran's remarkable recovery 7 photos — Murphy served two tours in Iraq with the Army's 101st Airborne Division's 187th Infantry Regiment. — Hide Caption 2 of 7 — Murphy patrols the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq, in an undated photo. — Hide Caption 3 of 7
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Patterico's Pontifications
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Las Vegas tycoon Sheldon Adelson to face graft accusations in US court — The owner of Sands casino fails in his attempt to have allegations of links to Chinese organised crime aired in Macau — A judge in Las Vegas has ruled that a lawsuit involving accusations of graft and organised crime ties …
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Balloon Juice and The Mahablog
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
US court to hear suit accusing Adelson of graft in China
US court to hear suit accusing Adelson of graft in China
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Hillary's Real Benghazi Problem — Yesterday the State Department released a handful of Hillary Clinton's emails relating to Benghazi. They have been selected at least twice for release to the public, once by Hillary's minions and once by the Department, so on one expected any bombshells.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
Tom Boggioni / Alternet:
WATCH: Virginia Cop Uses Pepper-Spray, Taser on Unresisting Black Man Having Stroke — He says he did nothing wrong. — Saying he did nothing wrong, a Virginia police officer resigned from the Fredricksburg Police Department after body-cam video showed him using his Taser, and then pepper-spray …